Research Opportunities for Undergrads
- Find a Research Laboratory (This is not a list of who has space or projects in any given semester - contact the professor about openings)
- Email one or two professors. Include an unofficial copy of your transcript
- After you've been accepted into a lab, get a permission slip from the biology office MO 439 to enroll for credit
- Any questions? See Bethia King, BIOS 495/Honors Advisor, MO 446, 753-8460, bking@niu.edu
Contact biology professors about openings for undergraduate research in their labs:
| Professor | Lab | Research Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Heather Bergan-Roller | MO447/425 | Biology education research |
| Neil Blackstone | MO 339/423 | Coral physiology and bleaching |
| Barrie Bode | MO449/412 | Cancer Biology and Molecular Physiology |
| Ana Calvo | MO 308A/309 | Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology; Gene Regulation; Plant and Animal Pathogenic Fungi |
| Olivier Devergne | MO 342/414 | Cell and Developmental Biology, Epithelial Cell Polarity |
| W. Scott Grayburn | MO 303/326 | Molecular Core Lab |
| Holly Jones | MO 448 | Conservation biology; Restoration ecology; Climate change adaptation |
| Bethia King | MO 446/428 | Animal Behavior; Entomology |
| Jennifer Koop | MO 449/317 | Evolutionary Biology, Invasion Biology, Population Genetics, Conversation Biology |
| Virginia Naples | MO 425 | Anatomy; Functional Morphology; Mammalogy |
| Karen Samonds | MO 406A | Paleontology, Skeletal Biology, Biogeography, Anatomy |
| Pallavi Singh | MO 334/407 | Human/Animal Microbiome, Bacterial pathogens, Comparative Genomics, One Health, Food Safety |
| Garry Sunter | MO 322 | Plant Pathogens and Plant Immunity |
| Wesley Swingley | MO 333 | Microbial Ecology; Computational Biology |
| Linda Yasui | MO 358/114 | Radiation-induced cell death, cell biology, cancer biology |
| Shengde Zhou | MO 435 | Microbial genetics, molecular biology, metabolic engineering, biotechnology |
| Michael Henson | MO312 (L)/MO452(O) | Aquatic Microbiology; Microbial genomics, physiology and ecology; Molecular and Computation biology |
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